voice;

[ironicarus]

Hello! Hello, Splendor.

I have a brilliant idea, you see, what this city is lacking is, well, besides television (am I right?), a proper lab.

A place to learn things, and take kids on little tours, maybe a fusion reactor or two. Most importantly, a place where we can do tests.

Yes, testing is the most important part of any laboratory, thing,

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voice;

[rivalheroics]

Huh? What kind of testing are you wanting to do?

voice;

[ironicarus]

The most important kind. The kind with results.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

... [Not that he's against the pursuit of science and all that jazz, he just can't help but be wary, considering the last "scientist" he knew of was trying to create an army of brainwashed Pokemon when he wasn't trying to sell them on the black market...]

Well, what kind of results are you hoping to get? It's gonna be hard to get people wanting to help if you don't tell them what exactly you're doing...

voice;

[ironicarus]

The ones that will bring me immense scientific satisfaction.

And by this, I mean, how many obstacles can a person overcome to reach something they want, on the other side of a room, if those obstacles involve spikes, dangerous chemicals, and other mildly discouraging things.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

...Seriously? But someone could get hurt or killed if you involved things like that!

voice;

[ironicarus]

I'll have to add that to the disclaimer, then.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

Can't you think of less potentially dangerous things to be "testing" for?

voice;

[ironicarus]

What, like the applications of fluff-enhancers on small animals? Been there, done that mate.

The enhancers had carcinogenic properties, by the way. Terribly disappointing.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

[...Okay we're not exactly sure what you just said, but...]

If you really wanted to do testing and science-y stuff, you could...uh...I don't know, maybe you could do tests involving the wishing system they have here? [He's seen some people on the seals do so before, so that would probably be less dangerous than people falling to a spiky death, right?]

voice;

[ironicarus]

That depends.

Can I wish for test subjects?

voice;

[rivalheroics]

...No, you can't. [Well okay, technically you could, but...] Besides they'll just rebel or leave if you're trying to do dangerous tests on them.

voice;

[ironicarus]

Locked doors and rigged explosives have been proven as very effective in demotivating rebels.

Or so I have heard.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

...Yeah, no, that will just demotivate them from wanting to participate at all in these little "experiments" of yours!

voice;

[ironicarus]

You're right, maybe I can try asking politely.

Um, wasn't I just doing that?

voice;

[rivalheroics]

[Siiigh Wheatley you are hurting his brain why are we bothering to have this kind of conversation with you...]

It doesn't matter how politely you ask someone, asking them to participate in potentially life-threatening experiments isn't going to get you anyone wanting to help...unless they have a bizarre death wish or something. [Or are dim and easily fooled...thank god Hareta isn't here, he'd have to be worried about that poor idiot getting experimented on.]

voice;

[ironicarus]

What if I deployed smooth jazz?